Description

One of the SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive's highest-rated games, Gunstar Heroes is now available on mobile! Play free and rediscover Treasure’s classic gem!

A forgotten lunar super weapon, a totalitarian empire bent on world domination, and an insane General who’ll stop at nothing to bring the planet to its knees – only the Gunstar Heroes can stop him. Play as twin brothers Red and Blue, and embark upon one of the most treasured SEGA gems of all time. Arm yourselves with flame-throwers, homing missiles, and lasers to take the fight to the enemy’s HQ – the dreaded orbital fortress, the Ark!

Gunstar Heroes joins the ever-increasing line-up of ‘SEGA Forever’, a treasure trove of free SEGA console classics brought back to life on mobile!

FEATURES- Mix and match four different weapon types for a total of 14 firearm combinations- Local, cross-platform multiplayer over local Wi-Fi- Grab and throw your partner at enemies for vital hits that don’t take up ammo!- Seven levels to explore, from an ancient ruin to a vast orbital fortress

MOBILE GAME FEATURES- PLAY FREE with ad-support or ad-free via In-App Purchase- SAVE YOUR GAMES – save your progress at any point in the game- LEADERBOARDS – compete with the world for high scores- HAPTIC SUPPORT: get into the game with responsive button presses - CONTROLLER SUPPORT: HID compatible controllers

GUNSTAR HEROES TRIVIA- The game went under the working titles of Blade Gunner and Lunatic Gunstar- This was Treasure's first game of six to hit the Mega Drive / Genesis over a two-year period- M2, creators of the Game Gear port of Gunstar Heroes, went on to remaster the Mega Drive / Genesis original on 3DS over 20 years after the original release

GUNSTAR HEROES HISTORY- The game was originally released worldwide in 1993- Developed by: Treasure- Main Programmer: Mitsuru Yaida- Lead Composer: Norio Hanzawa

Game apps are ad-supported and no in-app purchases are required to progress; ad-free play option available with in-app purchase.

This game may include "Interest Based Ads" (please see http://www.sega.com/mprivacy#3IBADiscolure for more information)​ and may collect "Precise Location Data" ​(please see http://www.sega.com/mprivacy#5LocationDataDisclosure ​for more information)​

Great! I like it! Really well done, and it's original Sega! I hope to see more games coming! How about to create a good joystick SEGA for this? Playing with the touch is completely bad...

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Jonathan Kirtz

8bitdo SF30 Pro doesn't work with this or any other Sega Forever title. Only face buttons register, no D-pad or Start button. No problem with controller in any other apps. The emulation and cloud saves are great, and I like the menus. Would buy if controller worked.

Chris Benitez

The game is great but when I'm holding the fire button down it would randomly start moving my character to the right. Please fix this since this bug is very annoying especially when at a boss fight.

Rustam Abdulkerimov

Nice port, but there's a problem. I use Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet which natively supports DualShock 4 controller. The mapping of buttons in this port for DualShock 4 is broken and cannot be set (Start Button is set as Square, L2 and R2 buttons, C button is Circle button and there are no A and B buttons mapped) Please, add support for DualShock 4 controller for Xperia devices for this port and for the rest of the games ported by Sega Forever program. Thank you in advance.

Squid Kid

Absolutely incredible. Just like every other SEGA Forever release, my only issue is the touch control. If you're going to play this spectacular game, you NEED a physical controller. Please either get an Android controller or play the 3DS version, touch controls ruin this game.

Hobo Defender

Great gameplay, great visuals, and great music. I have the same complaint as many that the touch controls are a bit too imprecise for my liking. I will, however, say that is fine in this instance since I can actually, properly use my PS4 controller making for great precision and overall a great experience.

Jose Torres

I used to play this when I was a kid this games amazing thanks for bringing it to android. The sean guy below is an idiot this is nothing like Mario. I don't think he has played either one of these games.

User reviews

Jonathan Kirtz December 28, 2017

8bitdo SF30 Pro doesn't work with this or any other Sega Forever title. Only face buttons register, no D-pad or Start button. No problem with controller in any other apps. The emulation and cloud saves are great, and I like the menus. Would buy if controller worked.

Hi there, sorry to hear that you are having issues with the on screen controls. I have forward this information to the development team, who will be investigating this issue. Please keep an eye out on the app store in the near future for an update that should hopefully fix this issue.

Rustam Abdulkerimov February 16, 2018

Nice port, but there's a problem. I use Sony Xperia Z2 Tablet which natively supports DualShock 4 controller. The mapping of buttons in this port for DualShock 4 is broken and cannot be set (Start Button is set as Square, L2 and R2 buttons, C button is Circle button and there are no A and B buttons mapped) Please, add support for DualShock 4 controller for Xperia devices for this port and for the rest of the games ported by Sega Forever program. Thank you in advance.

Absolutely incredible. Just like every other SEGA Forever release, my only issue is the touch control. If you're going to play this spectacular game, you NEED a physical controller. Please either get an Android controller or play the 3DS version, touch controls ruin this game.

Great gameplay, great visuals, and great music. I have the same complaint as many that the touch controls are a bit too imprecise for my liking. I will, however, say that is fine in this instance since I can actually, properly use my PS4 controller making for great precision and overall a great experience.

I used to play this when I was a kid this games amazing thanks for bringing it to android. The sean guy below is an idiot this is nothing like Mario. I don't think he has played either one of these games.

My favorite game as a kid and this is still fun to this day the only thing is the buttons make them triangle form big A,B,C buttons and the directional pad a 🕹️ arcade style would really help with the gameplay

Game is incredible! I never played it as a kid, but wow I wish I had. I have managed after some time to beat the 1st level, it's kinda hard but so fun and the continue system is really player friendly.

One of my favourites. Get a controller. Love the save function and the online co-op is a very smart move. Am excited to play with others. I hope Sega will create a link to a community forum so those that downloaded it can play together.

The titles in the SEGA Forever collection supports HID controllers for Android devices. If the controller you are using is one that is listed as supported, please send us full details of the controller and device you are using to help@sega.net and we will have the development team investigate.

Nathan Lawver December 24, 2017

One of my all time favorite games to have ever come out! I can't believe I get to play it again!

The titles in the SEGA Forever collection supports HID controllers for Android devices. If the controller you are using is one that is listed as supported, please send us full details of the controller and device you are using to help@sega.net and we will have the development team investigate.

ATTM DIMONDMINECART January 20, 2018

Hey want a cuphead game well this is just like it theres a part where use a vehicle. This is classic cuphead even multiplayer. #ClassicCuphead

To the stupid morons here saying this is a Cuphead rip off...you can't be this ignorant... this game released in the early1990s while Cuphead just recently released. Nown which one is a rip off of the other you idiots? Anyway, was waiting for this to show up here since it was the best Genesis game easily & finally after months & months of waiting pretty much what I thought would happen happened. It's a great game, maybe in the top 10 or 20 ever made during the era, & it controls like absolute garbage here. I understand a touch screen will never replace proper controls but the fact of the matter still is putting it on platforms that are 100% touch-controlled means you have to make sure the game works properly with that control method first. I shouldn't have to immobilize my mobile device with a controller just to make a game work taking away the mobility of the platform to begin with. If I wanted to use a controller to make a game control properly I would play on another better platform for gaming to begin with. Period. The game itself is a 5 but the effort here is a 3 at most. Just really disappointing watching classics such as this, the Metal Slug games, the Mega Man games, so on and so forth turning out so poorly with all the technology we have now compared to the absolute archaic dinosaurs the games originally ran on. There's just no excuse for these games to control or run worse now than they did 25 or 30 years ago.

Hi there, sorry to hear that you are having issues with the game, can you send a detailed email to help@sega.net about the issue you are having as well as what device and OS you are currently using, so that we can investigate the issue. Please can you also include the name of the game in the email

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Gunstar Heroes joins the ever-increasing line-up of ‘SEGA Forever’, a treasure trove of free SEGA console classics brought back to life on mobile!